Utah County Housing Market Report: October 2026

Are Utah County home prices going up or down?

Mostly flat. The 12-month median single-family sale price was $603,000 for October 2025 through September 2026, compared with $600,000 for October 2024 through September 2025, up just 0.5%. The median price per square foot was $206, unchanged from a year earlier.

Median sold price of single-family homes in the 20 Utah County cities below, by year. *2026 is January through September. UtahRealEstate.com data through September 30, 2026.

The longer view: the county median rose from $364,500 in 2019 to $600,000 in 2022, slipped to $580,000 in 2023, and has held near $600K since. So far in 2026, the median is $605,000, compared with $602,045 for the same months of 2025 (up just 0.5%). In the most recent three months (July through September), it was $610,000 versus $604,990 a year earlier.

What did change is the number of sales: 6,375 single-family homes sold in the last 12 months, up 8.3% from 5,885 the year before. About 34% of them were new construction (built 2025 or later).

City by city, the picture is mixed. The biggest gains in the median were in Alpine (+31.2%), Elk Ridge (+11.9%), and Highland (+9.7%); the biggest declines were in Woodland Hills (−9.8%), American Fork (−6.1%), and Salem (−3.2%). In smaller cities, a handful of larger or smaller homes selling can move the median a lot, so treat big swings there with care.

Which Utah County cities are most and least expensive?

Over the last 12 months, the most expensive cities for a single-family home were Alpine ($1,448,082), Highland ($1,020,000), and Woodland Hills ($912,500). The least expensive were Eagle Mountain ($529,722), Santaquin ($539,900), and Payson ($539,900).

Single-family homes sold October 2025 through September 2026. Change compares the 12-month median with the median for October 2024 through September 2025. *Fewer than 100 sales in 12 months (Alpine, Woodland Hills, Lindon, Vineyard, Elk Ridge, Cedar Hills), so the median and its change can swing with just a few sales. Median price per square foot uses the MLS figure for each sale. UtahRealEstate.com data through September 30, 2026.

Price per square foot tells a different story than price. Alpine had the highest median at $262 per square foot, and Eagle Mountain the lowest at $170. Cities with lots of new, larger homes on smaller lots tend to have lower prices per square foot, while established cities with older, smaller homes often run higher.

How long do homes take to sell?

The median Utah County single-family home spent 42 days on market in the last 12 months, compared with 39 days the year before. For resale homes only (built before 2025), the median was 43 days.

• Fastest: Cedar Hills (34 days), Vineyard (34 days), and American Fork (35 days).
• Slowest: Woodland Hills (85 days), Elk Ridge (75 days), and Alpine (62 days).

Most homes sell close to their price. The median home sold for 100% of its final list price. 53% sold at or above that price and about 47% sold below it. For resale homes alone, 48% sold at or above list.

Days on market is the MLS figure for each sale. New construction is sometimes entered into the MLS after it is already under contract, which can make it look faster than it really was. "List price" here is the final list price, after any price cuts, not the original asking price.

Is it a buyer's or seller's market?

By the most common yardstick, months of inventory, Utah County is balanced, right between a buyer's and a seller's market. There were 2,149 single-family homes actively for sale in the 20 cities, against 6,375 sales in the last 12 months, or about 531 a month. That works out to about 4.0 months of inventory: the time it would take to sell every listed home at the recent pace if nothing new came on the market.

A common rule of thumb is that under about 4 months favors sellers, 4 to 6 months is balanced, and over 6 months favors buyers. It is a rule of thumb, not a law, but it is a useful way to compare cities.

How this is calculated: months of inventory = active listings ÷ (12-month sales ÷ 12). Active listings are single-family homes in Active status only, so homes under contract, backup offers, and coming-soon listings are not counted. They were counted on the day each city's data was pulled (October 8, 2026 for Mapleton; October 15, 2026 for 5 cities; October 20, 2026 for 14 cities), not on September 30, 2026. Builders do not always list every home they are building, so supply of new homes can be larger than the MLS shows. Single-family only; townhomes and condos are not included.

Supply was tightest in Lindon (2.2 months), Pleasant Grove (2.9 months), and Lehi (3.0 months), where sellers have the upper hand. It was loosest in Woodland Hills (11.3 months), Alpine (7.2 months), and Santaquin (6.1 months), where buyers have more room to negotiate.

What happens next?

Nobody can tell you where prices will be next year, and we will not pretend to. Here is what the numbers on hand do show:

• Prices have been close to flat for about four years. The county median was $600,000 in 2022 and $603,000 over the last 12 months. That is 65.4% above the 2019 median of $364,500, with almost all of the increase coming before 2023.
• More homes are selling. Sales were up 8.3% from a year earlier, and 2026 so far has had 4,857 sales, compared with 4,510 in the same months of 2025.
• Supply is about balanced. At about 4.0 months of inventory county-wide, neither side has a strong edge, but it varies a lot by city.
• Homes are taking a little longer to sell: 42 days at the median, compared with 39 a year earlier.
• New construction is a big part of the market. About 34% of sales were homes built 2025 or later, so what builders do with prices and incentives affects everyone selling a resale home nearby.

We will update this report every month with the newest MLS data, so you can see which way these numbers move instead of guessing.